A GUI or Graphical User Interface…
After you’ve purchased your VPS, and connected to to your VPS, first run apt-get update.
apt-get update
Now install desktop, vps images won’t have this by default
apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Configure the Gnome Desktop Manager and XServer
sudo service gdm start sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Install VNC software
sudo apt-get install vnc4server
Setup password
vncpasswd
enter a new [password]
Start vncserver
vncserver
Now you will be able to connect to ubuntu VPS with VNC.
On ubuntu, it won’t start “vncconfig” on booting. You need to run “vncconfig” to share clip board between vnc.
vncconfig
On Ubuntu 10.04, i get a terminal window on login. You can start gui application from this window. It use less CPU. If you need genome desktop, edit file
vi /root/.vnc/xstartup
Find
x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & x-window-manager &
Replace with
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & gnome-session &
